John Jacob (East India Company officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Officer of the British East India Company
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1812
Place of Birth: Woolavington, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 06-Dec-1858
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About John Jacob (East India Company officer)
- Brigadier-General John Jacob CB (11 January 1812 – 6 December 1858) was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career.
- He is known for the cavalry regiment called 36th Jacob's Horse, and for founding the town of Jacobabad, in modern day Pakistan, where he planned and supervised the transformation of thousands of acres of desert into arable land over the course of twenty years.
- The scale of progress and prosperity his works brought to the region can be appreciated by comparing those regions’ relative prosperity compared to areas which were not under his administrative jurisdiction.
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